The Theater of Fine Devices containing an hundred morall Emblemes. First penned in french by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe |
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EMBLEME III.
Who doth presume aboue his state,
Doth still incurre the greater hate.
Thou that in Court doest spend thy merry daies,
Doth still incurre the greater hate.
Sport not with Princes, if that thou be wise:
For he that with his owne superiour playes,
Shall finde great perils thereof to arise.
Meddle with thy match, the antiēt prouerbe saies
On equall play-fellowes no danger lyes.
He that presumes to shaue the Lyons skin,
Full little knowes what danger he is in.
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